Forbes

2018-02-16T13:37:00.000000000-05:00
$11 billion dollars worth of blockchain companies are coming out of one major network found in universities around the world. Read about millionaire Jeremy Gardner's life, and the Blockchain Education Network that brings students together to build businesses off of this new technology.

2018-02-16T06:46:00.000000000-05:00
The recent gyrations in U.S. equities reflect confusion about how inflation works. Everyone wonders why, despite very low unemployment and a budget-busting combination of lower taxes and more government spending, we still see so little consumer price pressure. The underappreciated fact is that ....

2018-02-14T09:21:00.000000000-05:00
For two decades, Harvard's Clayton Christensen has been predicting that disruptive innovations would impact management education—and that even the likes of the Harvard Business School would feel their might. That no longer feels so far away or like a crazy prediction.

2018-02-14T09:02:00.000000000-05:00
Marjorie Brown, a South African teacher who teaches history at Roedean School, Johannesburg, has been named a top 10 finalist for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2018

2018-02-13T18:00:00.000000000-05:00
Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, one of the top hotel schools in the country, is stripping Wynn of the "hospitality icon" honor it awarded the casino magnate last year.

2018-02-13T16:52:00.000000000-05:00
Students who used online materials in their science courses made significantly greater test gains than those who stuck to traditional textbooks, according to a new study.

2018-02-13T06:00:25.000000000-05:00
Behind-the-scenes marketing has made 'I Trust Parents' the mantra of for-profit, online charter schools in their battles with states and traditional charter schools.

2018-02-12T06:01:00.000000000-05:00
Two-thirds of the nation's schoolchildren struggle with reading. Neuroscientist Mark Seidenberg says teachers need a better understanding of what science knows about how kids learn to read.

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Harvard University

2018-02-14T14:55:16.000000000-05:00
Portrait of Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley This week brought the unveiling of the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama at the National Portrait Gallery. Each image is both visually striking and laced with symbolic meaning, as well as imbued with the significance of the nation’s first Af...

2018-02-08T10:19:25.000000000-05:00
We’re very pleased to share the news that Joy de Menil has been appointed to the newly created position of Executive Editor and Director of Belknap Publishing. In addition to acquiring her own titles, de Menil will oversee the rebranding of the prestigious Belknap imprint, with an eye to widening...

2018-02-02T09:02:00.000000000-05:00
In the days since Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address, one of the most consistently noted elements of the evening has been the speech’s heavy reliance on the stories of individuals, the so-called “heroes in the balcony” whose courage, kindness, strength, and suffering have...

2018-01-31T16:44:48.000000000-05:00
Harvard’s Michael Sandel is an unusually prominent thinker in North America and Europe, but in China he’s a verifiable celebrity, inspiring what New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos describes as “near religious devotion.” On one recent trip, the border guard checking passports told Sandel that he w...

2018-01-22T10:50:00.000000000-05:00
In Life through Time and Space, Wallace Arthur brings together the latest discoveries in biology and astronomy to examine our deepest questions about where we came from, where we are going, and whether we are alone in the cosmos. The answer to that last question is almost certainly negative, but,...

2018-01-15T07:04:00.000000000-05:00
In the last months of 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a series of five lectures that stand as his final testament on racism, poverty, and war. Later published as The Trumpet of Conscience, the lectures included King’s urgent call for a global movement for justice: But we do not have much ...

2018-01-12T09:39:24.000000000-05:00
New year, new Loebs! Below, Loeb Classical Library General Editor Jeffrey Henderson introduces the latest additions to what critic Adam Kirsch calls “one of the greatest accomplishments of modern scholarship.” ----- This season brings another exciting set of volumes for the Loeb Classical Library...

2018-01-01T07:00:00.000000000-05:00
Today marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, one of the most haunting and enduring works ever written in English, and arguably our greatest tale of horror. Below, Susan Wolfson and Ronald Levao, whose widely celebrated annotated edition of the novel we publ...

2017-12-20T17:26:30.000000000-05:00
In The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View, a short book recognized as one of the year’s best on religion, philosopher Tim Crane attempts an intervention into contemporary debates on religion, which he sees as only so much sequestered shouting, neither atheists nor believe...

2017-12-06T16:43:39.000000000-05:00
In the spring of 2016 we published a major new edition of Emily Dickinson’s verse, the only extant volume of Dickinson’s complete poems that distinguishes between those she delicately preserved in her storied fascicles and those she treated with somewhat less care. Painstakingly edited by Dickins...

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Princeton University

2018-02-15T14:00:00.000000000-05:00
Chemistry professor Abigail Doyle led a team of researchers who have developed state-of-the-art software to predict reaction yields while varying up to four components, a powerful tool in expediting the synthesis of new medicines.

2018-02-14T13:00:00.000000000-05:00
A silicon-based quantum computing device could be closer than ever due to a new experimental device that demonstrates the potential to use light as a messenger to connect quantum bits of information — known as qubits — that are not immediately adjacent to each other.

2018-02-14T10:31:00.000000000-05:00
Anne Treisman, a Princeton University psychologist who made major contributions to the understanding of attention and perception, died Friday, Feb. 9, in New York City.

2018-02-14T09:00:00.000000000-05:00
Maria Garlock, professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been named head of Forbes College, and Stacey Sinclair, professor of psychology and public affairs, has been named head of Mathey College.

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Department of Education

2018-02-13T19:55:23.000000000+00:00
Student artists whose works focused on the theme “What Is Your Story?” gathered at the U.S. Department of Education (ED) on Jan. 16, 2018, to be celebrated for their awards in the 2018 National PTA Reflections® Student Arts Showcase program. Since 1969, the program has annually recognized element...

2018-02-09T18:28:50.000000000+00:00
It just figures that National School Counseling Week starts the day after the Super Bowl. The country gorges on guacamole-covered chicken wings on Sunday, and when America’s most misunderstood group of educators asks for three nacho chips and a high five on Monday, the country is too tired to par...

2018-02-07T21:25:29.000000000+00:00
Note: February 5-9, 2018 is National School Counseling Week. Vicarious or secondary trauma invades our classrooms and leaks into the hearts of educators who carry the emotional burdens of their students. If we can honor our educators and their work by giving them the skills and space for their ow...

2018-02-01T20:00:12.000000000+00:00
“We need to question everything; to look for ways in which we can improve, and embrace the imperative of change. At the end of the day, success shouldn’t be measured by how much ivy is on the wall,” said U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “It should be determined by how you’re educating and pr...

2018-01-30T20:07:11.000000000+00:00
“There are a number of challenges and opportunities facing American students,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. “And Washington, D.C. does not have all the answers. But government can be good at bringing people together to highlight their creative thinking and new approaches.” Secret...

2018-01-26T21:18:07.000000000+00:00
January 21-27, 2018 is National School Choice Week! President Donald J. Trump issued a proclamation marking the event. In the words of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, School choice is not about picking this building or that classroom – it’s much bigger than that. It’s about freedom to fi...

2018-01-18T21:08:07.000000000+00:00
Did you know that game-based learning is gaining popularity in education as more young people and adults learn from games in and out of the classroom? Well-designed games can motivate students to actively engage in content that relates to coursework, and to master challenging tasks designed to sh...

2018-01-16T19:58:13.000000000+00:00
This past fall I had the opportunity to visit the U.S. Virgin Islands, twice — first, in October, and two weeks later, in the company of Secretary DeVos. There, I saw firsthand the wholesale destruction left by back-to-back hurricanes. The experience was both humbling and uplifting. During my fir...

2018-01-11T20:42:46.000000000+00:00
“But I’m just a teacher…” We, teachers, change the mindsets of self-doubters, instill a lifelong love of learning for many, care for the children of others as if they’re our own, and play a major role in creating all other professions. Yet, despite those superpowers, many of us have heard or utte...

2018-01-10T20:32:00.000000000+00:00
“When can I go back to school?” When that experience is disrupted, getting back to school can mean everything to students. And the adults who care for them — parents, educators and civic leaders — feel a special urgency. For our fellow Americans in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, including more ...

2018-02-16T10:00:00.000000000-05:00
A recent survey indicates 90% of school principals believe technology is important to student learning, but less than half feel it is used effectively in the classroom.

2018-02-15T17:30:21.000000000-05:00
Syracuse University gained approval to create a J.D. program in which two-thirds of the coursework is online. This begs the question: Will advanced professional degrees continue to move online in the future?

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Stanford University

2018-02-17T08:15:52.000000000+00:00
The annual Family Weekend, which will take place Feb. 23-24, opens with a welcome address Friday morning from Provost Persis Drell and closes late Saturday afternoon.

2018-02-15T17:00:56.000000000+00:00
Mentally running through a routine improves performance, but how that works isn’t clear. Now, a new tool – brain-machine interface – suggests the answer lies in how our brains prepare for action.

2018-02-15T00:00:57.000000000+00:00
Stanford University Public Safety officials have confirmed that Santa Clara County hazardous materials professionals have tested a white substance received by a faculty member at the Law School on Wednesday and confirmed that it is an inert powder that poses no health concern.

2018-02-14T19:00:24.000000000+00:00
The Paris Agreement has aspirational goals of limiting temperature rise that won’t be met by current commitments. That difference could make the world another degree warmer and considerably more prone to extreme weather.

2018-02-13T08:15:14.000000000+00:00
The goal of the Churchill Scholarship program is to promote scientific exchange between the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to ensure future prosperity and security.